ellipse

A hole, though shaped like an ellipse, in which this well-hung stud had placed it would look as if a compass traced it.

On Dec. 18, a triumphant Johnson appeared on the Ellipse outside the White House to light the national Christmas tree.

In an orbit made elliptical by the planetary attraction the sun necessarily occupies one of the foci of the ellipse.

The longer axis of the ellipse is itself in constant motion in the direction in which the earth travels.

The form is an ellipse with axes of 620 and 513 feet, the building covering nearly six acres of ground.

The disk was an impossibly long ellipse now, surrounded by a vast array of smaller bodies, fragments and contents of the ship.

An ellipse is a figure bounded by a continuous curve, whose nature will be shown presently.